Forza 4 Currently Five Weeks Away From Completion – Night Driving In

Turn 10 is currently five weeks away from completing development on the highly anticipated Forza Motorsport 4, and fans of the game who were disappointed with the lack of night driving in the previous game will be glad to know that it will feature in this sequel.

“Our new lighting engine allows us to do alternate times of day. We have a choice number of tracks that are available in kind of an alternate trim, where you start seeing sun rise and sunset at a very oblique angles. That changes the light on the car and change the light in your eyes as you’re racing.”

Greenawalt said that Turn 10 had managed to avoid a little thing called ‘crunch’ on the game, which is the period where game developers work hard and determinedly all hours so as to ensure that a project will get finished on schedule. The studio avoided this due to strictly “metering ourselves all the way along, which is really the unsung hero of games development”.

He explained: “Right now, we’re just heading into finalising the game ahead to certification, which is making sure we’re complying with [Microsoft’s rules] on the box. There’s about five or so weeks until we submit the finished game.”

Greenawalt believes that the first major improvement that fans will notice with Forza 4 will be with its graphics.

“We saw that at E3,” he said. “People are really stunned by what we’ve been able to achieve with an engine that shipped in the box twice previously.”